Richard Hogan: 'Midlife crisis? To me, that's midlife happiness'

You follow this map, you reach the apex of adult life and you look around and ask, ‘Is this it?’ ‘Why do I feel empty or like I am missing something?’

Richard Hogan. Photograph Moya Nolan

Picture this for a moment; a follically challenged portly chap, sunglasses on, soft top of his Porsche 911 down and the wind flowing through the remaining scraps of a once thriving civilisation, he is smiling, singing some song he loves, off to play golf.

How do we label this happy dude? Yes, midlife crisis. But crisis, really? To me, that’s midlife happiness.